Key Points:
- Emoji Kitchen surpasses 100,000 unique emoji mashups!
- Get ready to spice up your YouTube Shorts with custom emoji combos.
- New standard emojis like “face with bags under eyes” coming to Android in 2025.
Google’s Emoji Kitchen, the delightful feature that lets you mix and match emoji to create wacky combinations, is getting a major upgrade. In celebration of World Emoji Day, Google revealed exciting news for emoji enthusiasts: Emoji Kitchen now boasts over 100,000 unique drawings!
But the fun doesn’t stop there. Google also announced that Emoji Kitchen will arrive on YouTube Shorts “in a few weeks.” This means you’ll soon be able to add a whole new layer of creativity to your short-form videos by tilting your head to activate Emoji Kitchen and “finding your favorite combo” to merge two emojis.
While unveiling the YouTube Shorts integration, Google also teased the upcoming additions to the standard emoji library. These new characters, part of Unicode 16.0, will be available as a web font (both color and monochrome) this September.
We can expect to see some interesting additions like a fingerprint emoji, a leafless tree, a harp, and even a face with bags under eyes (perfect for those late-night editing sessions!). While these new standard emojis won’t hit Android phones until March 2025 (likely with Android 15 QPR1), they’ll be popping up in “your favorite Google products” in early 2025.
So, get ready to unleash your inner emoji maestro! With the explosion of combinations in Emoji Kitchen and its upcoming integration with YouTube Shorts, the possibilities for expressive communication and creative video content are truly endless.
